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30 Dollars - Elizabeth II Cat
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Weight | 6.22 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, showing the Queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. The legend QUEEN ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper rim, while TUVALU and the date 2020 appear along the lower rim. The designer's initials IRB are incised below the truncation of the bust. The portrait is rendered with fine detail against a mirror-polished proof field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Tuvalu's coinage authority has long licensed novelty gold issues through the Perth Mint under arrangements that have little to do with Tuvaluan monetary policy and everything to do with the global collector market. This "Cat" series entry is one of dozens of themed fractional gold pieces Perth has produced on Tuvalu's behalf, a relationship that dates to the 1970s and remains one of the more commercially transparent arrangements in modern numismatics.
Mintages on these Perth-struck Tuvalu issues are typically capped in the low hundreds, enforced by the mint rather than any legislative constraint from Funafuti.